Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Testing Huge Banner Image Ad In Search Results
@SynrgyHQ posted an image of a search result that I felt was a joke, it couldn’t be real. I immediately emailed Google and they confirmed within ten minutes that this as a small test they are running in…
Google Penalty On WWW Revoked But Remains On Non-WWW
A WebmasterWorld thread has an interesting discussion around how a webmaster said his manual penalty was revoked on his WWW but…
Google Matt Cutts Hints At Upcoming SEO Changes At PubCon
There was some excellent note taking of his presentation, plus PubCon streamed it live, so I saw a glimpse of it. I wanted to pull out the highlights and most important things Matt shared…

Yahoo, Under Mayer, Accused Of Slowing Microsoft Partnership Rollout
Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said Yahoo breach of the agreement “established irreparable harm to Microsoft” and thus…
Google’s Stop Clock Fixed Again
In early August, Google launched a new feature for a Google timer, but earlier this month, that feature stop working. Google did promise to fix it and they just did…

Google Oslo’s Ping Pong Table
Daniel Waisberg spent some time at the Google office in Oslo and snapped a picture of their Ping Pong table. The whole area looks…

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

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